PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sexual Orientation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Lisa Henry

Document Summary

There may be a biological predisposition for a homosexual orientation in men who identify exclusively as homosexual in their orientation. Little bit less so for women who identify exclusively as lesbians. Kinsey sexual orientation scale (1948: either homosexual or heterosexual. Western concept, north american: assigning static label, ranking behaviour and (cid:498)psychological reactions, (cid:498)how many times, how many people(cid:499) very quantitative based on behaviour, likert type scale. 0 (being exclusively heterosexual with no heterosexual with no homosexual content) 4 (predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual) 6 (exclusively homosexual: women exhibited more bisexual behaviour than men. Storms two dimensional scheme (1980: low high hetero-eroticism, low high homo-eroticism, all mental who you desire, would have to rate yourself on the axis. Low hetero, low homo - asexual: asexual orientation was present in this model, but disappeared from literature until the late 90s. Kein"s sexual orientation grid: sexual orientation is made up out of a lot more than just behaviours, and eroticism.